'The Science Bridge' (TSB) initiative employs 'science for diplomacy' to improve human relations between nations and cultures. We are a global initiative, representing all people, all cultures and all nations. Our current project is focused to help improve relations between the Western and the Middle-Eastern countries. To achieve this goal, TSB aims to build 'Twin Institutes', which will be located between the collaborating nations, for example, one in a Western country and another one in a Middle-Eastern country. In each institute, we will bring together neuroscientists from around the world to conduct research on the brain and the nervous system. With our collective minds and hearts focused towards a common goal, we will strive to understand complex brain functions and also find treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's, while at the same time improve relations between diverse world cultures. Our researchers are accomplished scientists in the field of neuroscience from around the world who share our vision and commitment. Through scientific collaboration, we will also take a positive step towards peace between the West and the Middle-East, in particular, and between the West and the so-called Muslim world, in general, by demonstrating that the two can work together for the benefit of humanity.

Two supporters of 'The Science Bridge' win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Congratulations on this highest recognition for your outstanding contributions!Thomas C. Südhof, Stanford University and Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for shedding light on the internal “cargo delivery” system of the cell.

Bruce Alberts, the USA 'Science Envoy' endorses The Science Bridge

Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco, is a prominent biochemist known for his strong commitment and work in science public policy, who serves as one of President Obama's first three Science Envoys to facilitate scientific collaborations between the West and the Muslim world in order to improve human relations between these two diverse world cultures. He is also an Editor-in-Chief of the Science Magazine and has twice been elected as President of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.